Truckee girls soccer wins two

The Truckee High girls soccer team recorded its fifth straight shutout victory, 12-0, at Yerington on Friday.

The Wolverines also defeated Whittell 7-0 on Thursday in a makeup game rescheduled from Aug. 28.

Truckee is now 4-0-2 in the Tahoe League ” with ties coming against North Tahoe and Whittell ” and 9-0-2 overall in the Northern 3A.

The Wolverines frustrated the Yerington Lions, who drew a substantial number of fouls in the second half and injured two Truckee players, according to coach Nikki Gerardi. Due to minor injuries, Katie Dill and Kelsi Decker were not able to finish the game, the coach said.

Senior Lauren O’Neil initiated the scoring on Friday with an unassisted goal a minute and a half into the contest. O’Neil contributed another unassisted goal later in the half when she dribbled all the way from midfield for a score.

Truckee squad went on to score six more goals in the first half and another four in the second.

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Dill and sophomore Stephanie O’Neil remained on a tear offensively with five goals between the two. Dill posted two while the younger O’Neil tallied her second hat trick (three goals) in the past three games ” the other was against Sparks on Oct. 9.